# Description

This project contains the replication code for the manuscript "International Bureaucrats under Transparency: The Case of the WTO TRIPS Council" by Sojun Park <sojunp@mit.edu> and Minju Kim <mkim71@syr.edu>.

This document was prepared by Sojun Park on August 9, 2025.

# Data Sets

Two types of data sets are required to replicate the results in the manuscript: one privately owned and the other publicly available.

- The "private" folder contains licensed data sets obtained from the Nexis Uni database. Instructions for obtaining and downloading these data sets are provided in the appendix.
- The "public" folder contains publicly available data sets downloaded from their respective websites. The sources are listed in the appendix.

# Preprocessing

- The data sets required to replicate Table 3 were created using "data clean.R".
- The data sets required to replicate Table 4 were created using "table 4.R".
- The data sets required to reproduce Figure 5 and 6 were created using "table 1 & 3.R".

We recommend that users reproduce the data sets and replicate the results in the following order: "data clean.R", "figure 1.R", "figure 2.R", "table 1 & 3.R", "figure 5.R", "figure 6.R", and "table 4.R".

# Main Results

The main results in the paper were generated using "table 1 & 3.R" and "table 4.R".

# Plots in the Manuscript

The figures in the paper were generated using "figure_1.R", "figure_2.R", "figure_5.R", and "figure_6.R".